Kumar Ketkar
Even otherwise, the city of Mumbai is explosive. But everytime there is a terrorist attack, the metropolis is gripped by a kind of fear psychosis.
Once upon a time the Raj Kapoors and Dilip Kumars cashed in on their dreams, but in those days of ‘Shehar aur Sapna’ there used to be sympathy for the
It appears that all the problems of Maharashtra have been solved. People are not only happy and contented but are looking forward...
Vijay Tendulkar transcended the cultural boundaries of Maharashtra.
Read Raj Thackeray’s latest speech as a reflection of a wider Maharashtrian political economy problem.
Karnataka could determine Lok Sabha poll dates. But the churning has already begun
Raj and Uddhav Thackeray recently spoke of inclusive politics. Why that promise proved to be empty.
A roaring tiger with menacing eyes is a symbol of the Shiv Sena.
Today, when Narendra Modi is in the news for his ugly election rhetoric at Mangrol...
There is a false impression gaining adherents in most parts of India that Pratibha Patil, soon to be ensconced as the president of India...
The lady and the snowman: Pratibha and Shivraj are a study in contrast
NCP’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Shiv Sena must be read as a move by a long-distance runner
Don’t even try to find Maharashtra-wide trends in the BMC results
The recent violence that convulsed Maharashtra bore a caste character but it was essentially an expression of a spreading lumpen frustration — across
The Chimur bypoll was just an excuse for the BJP and Shiv Sena to play for future stakes
Supriya Sule will alter the political equation between the Congress and NCP
The average Mumbaikar is too busy working on survival to care about the Gujarat CM, and the average Gujarati in Mumbai holds him in no special thrall
His agenda for the PM’s visit emerges from the politics of three turbulent decades
For those like me who have spent more than 50 years in Mumbai, it was a rude shock to learn that we are the “rudest” people in the world.
The standoff on Rahul Bajaj’s candidature is rooted in the Pawar-Rane rivalry
Arjun’s playing the same card that Charan, VP Singh played to wreck Cong’s rainbow coalition
Pramod Mahajan believed that he was destined to be prime minister. Perhaps it was over-confidence. That was shaken by the BJP’s defeat in 2004. But no
One brother basked in the other brother’s success. What happened?